Skill Up With Nuke | How To Stand Out As A Junior Compositor

Foundry Product Specialist Chris Wetherly explores some of the most important things to know for compositing artists starting out, to build a career on the best possible foundation.
This video was made from a compilation of resources;
Ron Brinkman, author of ‘The Art and Science of Digital Compositing’
Richar Yot, author of ‘Light for Visual Effects’
Austin Meyers
Joe Raasch
Scripts kindly donated by The Mill and Hugo Guerra
Discover more about Nuke: www.foundry.com/products/nuke

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02:05 Script organisation and habits 02:58 Visual language 10:10 Modularisation 14:24 Planning & Script Management 18:26 Bounding Box Management 23:36 The flow of channels in Nuke 30:50 Only work with the channel data you need at a given point in the script. 31:11 The causes of filtering and how to avoid them 34:18 Photography and Light 38:57 The Math behind the scenes

[@herlenmeireles7484]

Nice!

[@supersaiyan9315]

Thanks

[@DiegoOrtegaVFX]

Thanks Chris for this! Never in a million years could I've ever gotten this kind of professional advice if it wasn't for you! I come from After Effects and it's taking me a long minute to be able to switch. But your knowledge, experience and specially your words and thoughts, just make not only my day! The rest of my whole career has completely changed! I feel enlightened. Thanks Foundry, and thanks again Chris! You rock!!!

[@aaronsbot]

These new videos are everything ive been looking for! thank you! I want more!

[@danilodelucio]

What makes me happy is knowing that I'm on the right way. I have always been judicious with organization, and this is really essential for all composers. Thanks Chris, you rock!

[@antjarvis]

Great presentation. Also useful for people using other applications, thanks.

[@dawngw26]

Excellent presentation, thank you!

[@carinnagarcia2301]

Excellent information! thanks for sharing

[@SebastienProduction1]

These days I am looking for a junior compositor post, so that video is very helpful and well explained. Thank you !

[@21stcenturyscots]

Where are you working now, four years later?

[@SebastienProduction1]

@@21stcenturyscots Hi! Well I succeed to find a job as compositor back in 2019, but since I dived into 3D with Houdini mostly. But while keeping Nuke compositing for post-rendering tasks of course :) Are you working in the VFX industry ?

[@theonlyaamir]

A lot of neat tips and tricks here! thanks :)

[@MrThirumal]

great Explanation, thanks mate

[@FxmediagroupRu]

Brilliant explanations. Thanx.

[@LucasNoce]

Thanks for uploading this :)

[@minsanglee1522]

Excellent.

[@IanZainea1990]

@38:55 Why is the default motion blur "start" instead of center? It's a slight nuisance to change every time, lol.

[@ibodullaev2824]

good

[@naifox1]

Good explication

[@tyoo9502]

My advice is don't get into comp because its a guaranteed no jobs for juniors, especially since the past 2 years. I am a comper myself from CA, been working in this industry for 5 years. Most juniors work are being sent to India because they are "cheaper". Many of my juniors colleagues have been unemployed for over a year. Just my word of advice. Cheers everyone.

[@nhlds]

ahh.. i wish i had learned about this fact a lot sooner.

[@vertextwin1177]

What are you saying? I don't understand

[@flobengogen]

I know I am replying to a comment from 3 years ago but this statement couldn't be further from the truth. Compositing is one of the most sought after roles in VFX, right up there with good Houdini artists. Senior Compositors easily have their annual salary well in the 6-figures. Back when I was studying my final year in VFX, there were students that already scored their first studio job while still attending class (part-time). And what were their roles? Every single one were junior compositors. And after graduation, only students that got jobs were those who studied compositing (with a few animators and production assistant).

[@narencreations9384]

@@flobengogen where Bro ❓

[@narencreations9384]

@@flobengogen I'm also interested in jr composting

[@user-mf6en2jd4m]

Nyuk has big problems with the alpha channel! You never know how he cuts the alpha channel next time! I do not understand why developers do not see this. Is it really impossible to make a kind of node that would cut off this alpha from all the channels? Or to make alpha always be in the default priority! Who needs black instead of alpha? It's impossible to remember how this confusion works